The Chief of Sawua, Nana Kwaku Amankwah Sarkodie II, has bemoaned what he describes as the lack of development in the Ashanti Region.

Speaking at a recent engagement in a video shared by Citi FM on September 8, 2025, Nana Sarkodie II asserted that the Ashanti Region has not been treated fairly by all the governments Ghana has had.

Comparing facilities in the Ashanti Region to those of the Greater Accra Region, the paramount chief pointed out that development in his home town is nothing to write home about.

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He argued that despite the fact that the Ashanti Region has the largest population in Ghana, it receives an uneven share of development projects.

“It is very painful that every government comes and cheats the Ashanti Region, I’m not lying. Why am I saying this? The Ashanti Region is the most populous region in Ghana, we are more than all the regions in Ghana, but compare the Greater Accra Regional Hospital to the Ashanti Regional Hospital. There are numerous hospitals in the Greater Accra Region; look at the number of hospitals in the Ashanti Region.

“... it is not the Otumfuo who is supposed to find money to fix the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, but it has come to that; why? ... Go to Amasaman, look at the interchange being constructed there, go to Flower Pot, go to Obetsebi Lamptey, go to Tema, go to Nungua, look at the interchanges there.

“From Sawua to where the regional hospital is, just three and a half km, it is undone, why? People keep asking me, Nana, when will the road be completed? But I’m not a contractor,” he added.

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The chief also lamented the failure of successive governments to complete the government hospital in Sawua, which was started in 2015 and was supposed to have been completed in 2020.

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